GENUS 46. HIUUNDO. SWALLOW. 
SPECIES 1. H. PURPUREJl. 
PURPLE MARTIN. 
[Plate XXXIX. — Fig. 1, Male. — Fig. 2, Female.~\ 
Lath. Syn- iv, p. 574, 21. Jbid.ix, p, 575, 23. — Catesb. Car. i, 51. 
— .irct. Zool. II, JVo. 333 — Hirondelle bleiie, de la Caroline, 
Buff, vi, p. 674. PL Enl.7^2. — Le Martinet couleur depoupre, 
Buff, vi, p. 676. — Turt. Syst. 629. — Edw. 120 . — Hirundo 
^ubis, liATH. IV, p. 575 — 24. — Peale’s Museum, JVo. 7645, 
7646.* 
This well known bird is a general inhabitant of the United 
States, and a particular favourite wherever he takes up his 
abode. I never niet with more than one man who disliked the 
Martins and woul d not permit them to settle about his house. This 
was a penurious close-fisted German, who hated them because, 
as he said, they eat his peas. ” I told him he must certainly be 
mistaken, as I never knew an instance of Martins eating 
bufhe replied with coolness that he had many times seen them 
himself “ blaying near the hife, and going schnip, sehnap,” by 
which I understood that it was his bees that had been the suf- 
ferers; and the charge could not be denied. 
This sociable and half domesticated bird arrives in the south- 
ern frontiers of the United States late in February or early in 
March; reaches Pennsylvania about the first of April, and ex- 
tends his migrations as far north as the country round Hudson’s 
Bay, where he is first seen in May, and disappears in August; 
* We add the following synonymes : — Hirundo purpurea, Lins'. Syst. i, p. 344. 
— Gmel. Syst, I, p. 1020 . — Hirundo cierulea, ViEiii. (Hs. de I’Am. Sept, pi. 25, 
male; p(. 27, female. 
